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And he (kai autos). He himself in his own person, both priest and sacrifice (Heb 9:14).
The propitiation (hilasmos). Late substantive from hilaskomai (Luk 18:13; Heb 2:17), in lxx, Philo, Plutarch, in N.T. only here and 1Jo 4:10. Christ himself is the means of propitiation for (peri concerning) our sins. See hilastērion in Rom 3:15.
For the whole world (peri holou tou kosmou). It is possible to supply the ellipsis here of tōn hamartiōn (the sins of) as we have it in Heb 7:27, but a simpler way is just to regard “the whole world” as a mass of sin (1Jo 5:19). At any rate, the propitiation by Christ provides for salvation for all (Heb 2:9) if they will only be reconciled with God (2Co 5:19-21).